The Buzz: December 7, 2022

Welcome to this week's edition of THE BUZZ! In this edition, you will find: Season of Giving is now, the latest sgENGAGE podcast, upcoming events, featured jobs, helping out your fellow community members to earn bonus points in community, and more...Happy Wednesday Community,


The Season of Giving is Underway!


Our annual Season of Giving campaign is rolling into week 2! So far, we have awarded the limited-edition badge for this campaign to 6 Blackbaud Community members. And YOU still have a chance to earn it.


There are only 3 steps:  

• Give back task #1: ask a question or start a discussion sharing your favorite product tip/trick.
• Give back task #2: answer an unanswered question in your product(s) community and/or mark your questions as answered. 
• Give back task #3: freshen up your profile picture, update your bio, and/or change your cover photo.  

 

These tasks go a long way in continuing to make Blackbaud Community a friendly, useful site and will help others connect with you in a more meaningful way!. 

 

You must complete all three tasks by 6:00pm ET on December 21st in order to earn the badge. We’ll be awarding the badge on a weekly basis (every Friday afternoon), so the sooner you complete these tasks, the sooner you’ll have the badge! 

 

And stay tuned because in the coming weeks we will also have bonus point opportunities for all new badge holders! 



Listen Up!


In this latest edition of the sgENGAGE podcast, meet Alex Budak, UC Berkeley faculty member and author of Becoming a Changemaker, as he joins Blackbaud’s Rachel Hutchisson to discuss how to develop your mindset and leadership skills to make positive change as part of our CSR Book Club Series. Listen here.



Featured Topics:


Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®: Using an Automated AP Integration From the Marketplace Like EzeScan or AvidXchange


Raiser’s Edge®: Constituency Code Use Best Practices


Raiser’s Edge®: How Many Queries Do You Keep Yearly?


Just for Fun: Holiday virtual backgrounds


Just For Fun: What is your holiday tradition?



Score Some Points and Help a Fellow Community Member:


Here's how: answer these questions with few or no responses! We will be awarding 1,000 points to any user who can answer one of these questions in Community this week

  

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®: Vendor portal setup

 

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®: Accounts Receivable - Finance Charges for Specific Customers



SKY Developer: Test Scores from Education Management



Blackbaud Grantmaking: Looking for creative ways to use the Reminders feature in Blackbaud Grantmaking.



Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Moves Management workflow



Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Looking for job description for database manager from small shops - K-12 ideal



Blackbaud eTapestry®: Email addresses for e-newsletter



Blackbaud Guided Fundraising®: Semester Trends for Pick Ups/Donations for Call Center




Career Builder:


Did you know the Blackbaud Community has a job board? You can post your organization’s job openings and members can also post that they are looking for a job.


This week’s featured jobs:

Development Database Manager (St. Paul, MN)

IT Support & Data Specialist (Canada)

Database Manager (Ronald McDonald House Dayton, OH)

Data Systems Manager (Remote/ CA)

Manager of Donor Society Clubs (Knoxville, TN)



Events:


Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Reduce processing fees with Complete Cover and Donor Cover (Dec 15)


Blackbaud User’s Field of Dreams: Community Ninja hosted event (Dec 15)


Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Making the most out of Gift Receipting and Giving Statements – CANADA ONLY (Dec 20)


SKY Developer: Microsoft Power BI User Group Meet-Up (Jan 11)



How do I… in community?


Please post any questions about how to use Community on this thread so, we can build a mini encyclopedia of how to use Community! Do you have a job posting, event, blog or question you want everyone to know about? Let other Community members know by leaving it in the comments below!